January 08, 2019, 20:07 / Auto Carlos Ghosn refused to plead guilty in court in Japan The former head of Nissan was brought in handcuffs to court, where he denied all the charges point by point Alexey Nevelsky Ghosn appeared in court looking emaciated and gray / ASSOCIATED PRESS Carlos Ghosn made his first public appearance since his arrest in November.

The British military is dismantling the roof of the house in Salisbury, where former GRU officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia lived, as well as the roof of the adjacent garage. Sky News reports this with reference to a letter that the authorities sent to the owners of neighboring houses. The letter states that scaffolding will be erected around the buildings within a month, then the old roofs will be dismantled within two weeks. They will be replaced with new ones.

Amazon became the largest company by market capitalization on Monday, surpassing Microsoft . Apple, which has been the most valuable company for years, now ranks fourth, with shares plummeting 36% over the past three months, including a 10% decline on Jan. 3, when the company cut its quarterly revenue forecast for the first time in more than 15 years. .

A 20-year-old suspect in the publication of personal data of hundreds of German politicians and celebrities was detained in Germany, Der Spiegel reports . We are talking about a young man who lives with his parents. On January 6, his house was searched, but by this time he had managed to destroy his computer. He confessed.

Ankara may ask Washington to transfer US military bases in Syria to Turkey after American troops leave them. If the US authorities do not agree, then Turkey will ask its ally to destroy these bases. The proposal may be made in the near future; US National Security Advisor John Bolton is currently in Ankara on an official visit, notes the Turkish newspaper Hurriyet .

08 January 2019, 14:51 / Finance Over three trading days, the dollar fell by 2.8 rubles, the euro - by 3.2 rubles After a jump in December, demand for foreign currency decreased in January, and oil prices continued to rise Anna Tretyak Demand for foreign currency traditionally declines in January after a jump in December, agrees Otkritie Brokera analyst / Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti The ruble on the Moscow Exchange strengthened significantly in the first trading days of 2019.

08 January 2019, 19:52 / Finance Banks borrowed more than 150 billion rubles from the Central Bank via repo Over the entire last year, the maximum debt of banks on repo reached 34.6 billion rubles Anna Tretyak The last time banks owed so much to the Central Bank was in September 2017 / Andrey Gordeev / Vedomosti On Tuesday, January 8, banks borrowed just over 150 billion rubles from the Central Bank through repo operations, as follows from the regulator’s data: before that they owed it only 3.6

The Daimler automaker is going to invest 500 million euros in the coming years in the creation of unmanned trucks. This was said in a statement . The company plans to begin selling fully self-driving trucks by 2025, a Daimler spokesman said at the international Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Partially automated trucks will be put into operation this year. To produce new cars, the automaker will create about 200 new jobs in the USA and Germany.

January 08, 2019, 23:31 / Auto Russians spent a record 2.38 trillion rubles on new cars in 2018 Over five years, their prices have increased 1.5 times, and sales have fallen by a third Vladimir Shtanov Car prices have been rising in recent years, primarily due to the weakening of the ruble, says Avtostat / Evgeniy Razumny / Vedomosti In 2018, new passenger cars worth RUB 2.38 trillion were sold in Russia. – more than 20% more than a year earlier. This is the preliminary assessment of Autostat.

The Japanese authorities are going to offer Russia to abandon mutual demands for compensation related to the South Kuril Islands. Tokyo may make such a proposal to Moscow during the next round of negotiations on the terms of a peace treaty, writes the Japanese newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun , citing several sources familiar with the progress of the negotiations. According to sources, the parties can sign an additional agreement containing this proposal simultaneously with the peace treaty.

The EU decided to impose sanctions against the Directorate of Internal Security of the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and two of its employees - Assadollah Assadi and Saeed Hashemi Moghadam. about this on Twitter . Danish Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen wrote "The EU has just agreed to impose sanctions on Iran's intelligence service for its involvement in assassination plots across Europe," he said.

Flights from London's largest airport, Heathrow, have been suspended due to a drone, the airport reported on Twitter. “We are responding to drone sightings at Heathrow and are working with the police to prevent a security threat. As a precaution, we have suspended flights while we investigate. We apologize to passengers for any inconvenience,” the message emphasizes. On December 19, London Gatwick Airport canceled all flights due to drones.

On Tuesday, January 8, Gazprom officially put into operation the floating regasification terminal (FSRU) Marshal Vasilevsky in the Kaliningrad region. A few days before the launch ceremony, the enclave was completely switched to autonomous gas supply in test mode (January 6, according to Entsog). The new terminal makes it possible to fully meet the Kaliningrad region's demand for gas through supplies by sea, Gazprom Chairman of the Board Alexey Miller told Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The investigation will make final conclusions about the causes and exact location of the explosion based on the results of the examination / Press Service of the Russian Emergencies Ministry / TASS The main version of the cause of the explosion in Magnitogorsk on December 31, 2018, which led to the collapse of the entrance of an apartment building and the death of 39 people, remains a gas explosion in one of the apartments, a source in law enforcement agencies told Vedomosti on Tuesday.

January 08, 2019, 23:09 / Economics / Interview EBRD Chief Economist: “Russia is more corrupt than one might expect” Sergei Guriev about the main problems of the Russian economy, the injustice of the pension reform and Navalny’s program Tatyana Lomskaya Maxim Tovkaylo Sergey Guriev, chief economist of the EBRD, professor of economics at Sciences Po / Maxim Stulov / Vedomosti Sergei Guriev left Russia for France in the spring of 2013 after searches at the Russian Economic School, which he then